1112: Chapter 1111 Offering Souls and Burning Blood, A Desperate Struggle

Retreat?

There is nowhere to retreat!

The battlefield is collapsing, and the Void Realm turbulence is about to sweep away everything.

Defend?

It is absolutely impossible to defend!

A full-strength strike at the Peak of the Fifth Rank, combined with the interference of the collapsing battlefield, means the armor of gods and demons may not fully block it.

The only option is... a desperate fight to the death!

"You want my Physical Body? With your skeletal remains in a grave, are you even worthy?!"

In Luo Xiu's eyes, those flames of dark night and molten gold ignited completely at this moment!

It was not a metaphor, but a burning in the truest sense!

He would no longer hold back!

With a thought, the Origin of the gods and demons, the vast life essence, and a portion of his condensed Divine Soul Origin within his body were ignited with a roar!

"Boom—!!!"

A terrifying Aura, more violent, tragic, and resolute than ever before, surged into the sky from Luo Xiu's body!

The dark golden God-Demon Flame was no longer just clinging to his skin or condensing into a Domain; it erupted from every pore of his body like a volcanic eruption!

The color of the flames shifted from dark gold to a nearly transparent, searing white, with a temperature high enough to instantly vaporize divine metal!

His hair stood on end without wind, dyed with the burning, searing white flames!

In his eyes, the left eye transformed into absolute darkness that swallowed all light, while the right eye became a searing white furnace that incinerated all things!

His Aura climbed steadily, and although it failed to break through the boundary of the Late Stage of the Fifth Rank, its sharpness, tragedy, and resolve were vaguely able to rival the Peak Fifth Rank pressure of the Spirit Emperor!

Burning his Origin and Divine Soul to exchange for an extreme burst of combat power in a short time!

This is a true method of risking one's life!

Afterward, his Origin Qi will surely be severely damaged, and he might even injure his Dao foundation, but at this moment, he could no longer care about such things!

"Kill—!!!"

Luo Xiu let out a heart-wrenching roar, gripping the god-demon greatsword "edge-less" tightly with both hands, while the searing white God-Demon Flame poured madly into the blade, causing this edge-less heavy sword to seem as if it had transformed into that primordial fire blade from the beginning of creation, one that divided Yin and Yang and burned Chaos!

Facing the sword of the fallen emperor that was thrust directly at his glabella, he did not dodge or evade, pouring all the power gained from burning everything into his arms; the god-demon greatsword "edge-less," carrying the terrifying momentum to burn the heavens and boil the seas, and destroy the ages, struck fiercely against the blade of the sword of the fallen emperor!

"Divine Demon—World Incineration!!!"

The searing white primordial fire blade and the dark red, near-black world-destroying imperial sword, amidst the rapidly collapsing heaven and earth and the apocalyptic background, collided with a roar like two destructive stars destined to crash, carrying all the power, will, and obsession for "life" and "Dao" of both sides!

At this moment, time seemed to stand still.

The next moment, the frenzy of destruction would swallow everything.

"Clang—!!!"

The searing white Divine Demon fire blade and the dark red, near-black blade of the sword of the fallen emperor collided with a roar beneath the shattered firmament!

There was no sound—or rather, the energy annihilation that exceeded the limit destroyed all mediums in the vicinity at the very first moment, and sound lost its medium for propagation.

There was only a pure, barbaric, all-destroying shockwave that, with the collision point as the core, expanded instantly in a spherical shape!

Wherever it passed, the disintegrating earth was leveled as if by an invisible giant hand, stripped away layer by layer, and turned into the finest dust!

The sky shattered completely, revealing the violent, chaotic Void Realm behind it! Countless spatial fragments were swept into the energy turbulence and instantly vaporized!

At the core of this absolute destruction, two wills, like two dying Vicious Beasts, were still crazily tearing at and wrestling with each other!

Luo Xiu's eyes bled, his left eye dark as an abyss, crazily devouring the battlefield imperial Law and the resentment of all spirits carried on the sword of the fallen emperor, while his right eye was searing white like the sun, converting the complex energy devoured along with his own burning blood essence and Divine Soul power into a searing flame that incinerated everything, pouring it into the edge-less greatsword!

The Spirit Emperor's crystal face twisted, and the phantom of the crown on its forehead flickered incessantly.

It clearly felt that the Peak power it had exchanged for via the sacrifice of all spirits was being rapidly consumed by the opponent's tragic and resolute burning and that strange power of devouring and incineration!

What alarmed it even more was that within the opponent's power, there was contained a trace of something it could not understand, yet which vaguely made its "Undead Emperor" Soul tremble—an obsession with life!

That was something it had long lost, yet yearned for immensely!

"Break for this Emperor!!!"

The Spirit Emperor roared, ignoring the cracks spreading across its crystal body that was disintegrating along with the battlefield, and forcibly squeezed the last of the battlefield's Origin.

The dark red sword light on the sword of the fallen emperor surged by another three points, like the final strike of a dying viper, intending to completely pierce and annihilate Luo Xiu, along with his sword!

"Crack..."

A faint yet clear cracking sound rang out in Luo Xiu's perception.

It did not come from the outside world, but from within his own body—burning blood essence and Divine Soul had already touched the Origin of the god-demon body!

And where the blade of the edge-less greatsword was deadlocked with the sword of the fallen emperor, the searing white flames were also vaguely suppressed by the dark red, near-black destructive sword light, beginning to retract backward.

The absolute gap in the level of power could not be fully made up for by will and risking one's life alone.

The Peak of the Fifth Rank, in the end, surpassed the Late Stage of the Fifth Rank in a burning state by a thin margin!

"Pfft—!"

Luo Xiu spat out another mouthful of blood, the blood evaporating as soon as it left his body due to the terrifying energy turbulence around him.

His arms trembled violently, his bones groaned under the unbearable weight, and his body was pushed back by that overwhelming imperial sword force, plowing through the Void Realm, leaving two charred trails burning with searing white flames beneath his feet.

Signs of defeat had already appeared!

A fierce light shot from the Spirit Emperor's eyes; how could it let go of this once-in-a-millennium opportunity?

The momentary stagnation of Luo Xiu's Aura due to the damage to his Origin was, in the eyes of an existence like it, a fatal flaw!

"Die!"

Not giving Luo Xiu the slightest chance to catch his breath or regroup, the Spirit Emperor forcibly raised its Qi, suppressing the backlash in its body that had intensified due to the battlefield's collapse, and formed its left hand into a sword finger, with a point of extreme dark golden radiance gathering at its fingertip.

That was the highly concentrated battlefield destruction Law and the imperial killing intent, and in the split second while Luo Xiu was pushed back by the sword force, his old strength exhausted and new strength not yet born, it struck silently yet as fast as a teleportation toward the spot on Luo Xiu's chest where the cracks in the armor of gods and demons were most dense!

This finger strike, while seemingly not as imposing as the sword of the fallen emperor, was even more insidious and lethal!

It intended to pierce directly through the defense, shatter Luo Xiu's heart, and annihilate his core of vitality!

A fatal warning sign pierced into Luo Xiu's Divine Soul like an ice pick!

He couldn't dodge!

He couldn't block it!

Whether it was turning his sword to parry or dodging to the side, it was already too late!

His body, in the burning state, could not bear the burden of forcibly changing direction again.

Life and death were truly hanging by a thread!

At this one-ten-thousandth of a second, in the depths of the crazily burning Battle Intent in Luo Xiu's eyes, a touch of absolute, icy resolve suddenly emerged like eternal ice.

There is nowhere to retreat, then... there is no need to retreat again!

There is nothing left to defend, then... use attack as defense!

A life for a life!

You want to take this King's Physical Body?

You want to kill this King?

Then let's see if you, a skeletal remain in a grave, can withstand this final struggle of mine, Luo Xiu, ignited by using my Origin, my Lifespan, and my future Dao path as fuel!